This was a story for  NightCrestComics around Christmas time.

Snow was falling; the ground was being covered in a white blanket of ice. It could only mean one thing…the holidays are here. School was out in Oak City, all the children playing outside laughing and having fun in the snow. Even the Gattsu family were having there kicks in the snow. B and Bunny were making snow angels in the deep snow laughing together while they were doing it. However, their two brothers decided to mess in on the fun. Clif and Zack decided to throw snowballs at them to get them to have a snowball fight. “Hehe, c’mon Zack, let’s throw more at them!” B and Bunny were being completely bombarded with snow balls as they laughed and ran around the yard. The girls found themselves pin down as the boys still were throwing snowballs. Bunny turned towards her sister and asked, “B, what are we going to do now?” B ducked her head to avoid a close snowball encounter, “Bunny, there is only one thing we can do….” The girls both nodded at each other and then shouted one phrase that will help them. “PAPAWOLF!!!!” The ground start shaking as you could feel almost a ton of weight racing towards, then appeared with a Christmas tree on his shoulders…Gurume Gattsu, the blue mountain of Oak City! “Howdy, girls! How’s life?” Bunny looked up to her papa wolf and said, “Zack and Clif are throwing snowballs at us. Will you help us?” The big blue mountain then squatted down and patted his young daughter on the head. “I love snowball fights, sure I will help ya girls out. Let’s get ‘em!” Clif and Zack looked out forward to the new castle that B and Bunny built while using their papa wolf as a shield. “Haha! You boys can’t break through ma belly, I’m invulnerable!” Gurume said with laughter in his voice. Zack said, “No fair Papawolf, you’re as big as house!” B then put an army helmet on her and Bunny. Gurume put on a Santa hat in the spirit of the holidays. “What are ya orders, Captain B?” B gave a slight evil laugh and replied to her big Papawolf downstairs and said, “Fire, on my signal!” B and Bunny grabbed a couple of snowballs and Gurume twin mattress sized snowballs in each hand. The three in the fortress gave an evil smile to the two boys and they both said, “Uh oh…” B and Bunny both yelled, “FIRE!!” as they hurled snowballs at the two boys knocking them off their feet and Gurume rolled his snow ball towards them like a bowling ball and smacked right into them. The impact sent them flying back a few feet as they yelled to each other. “THAT WAS AWESOME!!!” The both landed in a big pile of snow leaving their body silhouettes in the snow.

The three in the castle yelled, “ALL RIGHT!!” as they declared victory, but it was not over. The boys had recovered from impact and they shouted, “Mama Melody!!” Melody came out of the house running to her boys in her now gear. “What happened hear boys?” Clif then pointed to the castle where Gurume and the girls were at. She then gave an evil smile and said,
“I’ll be right back, in the meantime while they are out of ammo, you two build a fortress.” Clif and Zack got to work and started to build a fortress to help defend themselves while Gurume and the girls made more snowballs. Just as they were about to attack again, Melody came out with a new snow blower. “Hey, when did you get that, Melody?” Gurume asked. Melody then replied, “I got for pennies on a dollar” Melody then turned on the snow blower and started burying the castle with snow just as Gurume throw the snow ball at the boys and Melody. The giant snowball he threw started to overload the machine and made it explode, covering the whole city with a new blanket of snow. Everyone’s head popped out of the snow, they looked around the place to assess what just happened. After that, the 6 of them broke out in laughter. Everyone who was anyone in Oak City loved Christmas a lot. However, one people of oak city did not, Ego Banks, the richest and most egotistical driven guy in the Oak City. “Everybody shopped during the black Friday, which means less money that they pay. And that would mean less tax money for me to collect for me!! NO!!! I must stop this Christmas from coming, but what will I do?! Ego then walked around the front corridor of his mansion and thought of something. He got an evil smile and tapped his fingers together. “I know just what to do! Hahahahaha….hahahahahahahahahahaha!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”

After a few hours got into the day, Gurume, Melody and the kids got themselves into the holidays, cooking for Christmas dinner. Gurume tried to be naughty and tried to taste the cake batter, Melody caught him and tapped his hand with a spoon and said, “Uh-uh-uh…not until we put the batter in the pans, you can lick the bowl afterwards my big wolf.” Gurume sagged his head in a little disappointment and said, “Aww…” After the dinner was put in the oven for an overnight slow cooking to get that really good taste in them, it was time to decorate the Christmas tree. While Melody was wrapping the gifts, the blue mountain and his kids tool the liberty of taking the task of decorating the tree and the Christmas lights. Zack took his place at getting all of the electrical equipment together, everyone else put the Christmas light decorations where they belonged! Afterwards, Gurume gave Zack the thumbs up to hit the lights. “Hit it, Zack!” Gurume said with a hearty tone. “You got it Papawolf!” Zack said as he plugged in the lights as their whole house lit up. They cheered as they could see that their house was one of the brightest ones on the block. After that they started decorating the Christmas tree, Clif used Gurume’s belly as a trampoline to bounce off and run across the then swung around the tree with lights and ribbons. B then tossed some ornaments onto the tree that looked lovely. Bunny was then hoisted up by her Papawolf to put her angel on top of the tree that she made in art class. They all cheered as the Christmas tree was done, although they all yawned as it was time to go to bed.
Later on that night on the 24th of December, Ego got his penny paws in his airship. “I want you all to sneak into the houses of Oak City and steal every single present you can find! Christmas will be mine! MWAHAHAHAHAHA! When all of those fools find out their presents are gone, they’ll ask me to borrow money. When they don’t pay me back in 90 days, I’ll have the right to take away everything they have! Then I’ll be the richest one on the planet.” The army of penny pawns did what their boss asked and stole every single present from each and every home undetected. And the airship returned to Ego’s green fortune of a mansion like nothing had happened.
Everyone in town got up in the morning excited about Christmas Eve knowing that Christmas day wasn’t far behind! But all of a sudden that quickly turned to crying and sorrow. Gurume and the others saw that their presents were gone. They quickly ran outside and saw that everyone was robbed. “Who in the world could’ve done all of this?” Gurume said with confusion and anger in his tone. Then he looked down the road at Ego’s bank where everyone was signing a contract in order to get bags of money to replace all of the Christmas presents. Ego then saw as a big gray belly was blocking the sunlight. “Well well well, if it isn’t Gurume Gattsu. Care to borrow money from me?” Ego said with a smirk on his face. “Gurume then slammed has palms on the desk, and got in Ego’s face. “These contracts are nothing but scams, people spend their money on Christmas gifts and it takes more than 90 days to pay you back for what YOU gave them!!” Ego then sat back in his chair and said, “I’m trying to save Christmas, it is not my problem what happens afterwards.” Gurume then began to storm out, but not before he said. “I’ll find a way to save Christmas, even if I have to look up and down the town to find those presents.” Clif got a worried look on his face and asked, “What are we going to do now?” Bunny added, “I don’t wanna see sad faces on Christmas.” B then said, “Yeah, it even bums me out.” Zack then added along with them. “There has to be a solution to all of this” Melody then looked at Gurume who got a suspicious look in his eyes. “Honey, what are you thinking about?” Gurume then said, “Look, Ego never had an airship in that yard of his! I’m going over there tonight and look at that thing.”
Just as Gurume was about to get ready for his little infiltration into airship later on that evening, he managed to run across Melody and the kids. “What’re you guys doing here?!” Melody then replied, “We are going with you!” Gurume sighed and said, “Alright, but don’t stray too far now!” The gang entered the airship with cold creaking metal as they took each step. Clif then ran into a door and fell into a large pile of what felt like boxes. The others then said, “Shhh!” Clif then said, “Papawolf, come look at this!” They all poked their heads into the room and lit a flash light. “Good lord, these are all of the presents from everyone in the city!” Melody had said with horror in her voice. “Papawolf, aren’t we going to give those toys back to everyone?” B said with her sad eyes. Gurume hoisted her up and said, “Now don’t you worry we’re getting all the presents back to everyone in town, and you kids too!” B then looked up to a lit platform and said, “There’s only one problem with that.” Zack scratched the back of his head and asked, “Why is that B?” B then pointed to the platform and said, “Him!” The chair on top of the platform turned around revealed none other than ego banks in an oversized Santa suit. “Ho ho ho! Welcome Gurume and his rotten kids. Welcome to my evil Christmas airship! BWAHAHAHAHA!” Gurume then clinched his fists and shouted, “I knew it was YOU all along!” Ego could do nothing but laugh again as the airship took off and his penny pawns restrained Gurume. “You are right, it was me! And you know why? I hate Christmas; everyone decides to spend money on useless things when they could be paying their taxes! So I stole all of the presents in the city. Then once people sign my pay up in 90 days contract, they wouldn’t be able to pay up, so I take everything that made their kids happy and make everyone in town miserable while I reap the rewards. AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!” Clif then stood up on the presents and shouted, “I thought you couldn’t be any meaner, but you’ve stooped to a new low!!” Zack then yelled those presents are for the kids that parents love to see happy each and every year.” B then said, “Give us back the presents Ego, they are not yours!” Bunny then added to her sister’s demand, “Yeah!!” Ego then waved his finger and said, “Tsk Tsk Tsk, you should know that you have already lost, the presents are mine and soon Christmas will be ruined…FOREVER!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
Zack then took out a few smoke bombs from his belt and said, “Wanna bet? I made these in my room!” Ego then looked down and said, “What?” Ego then got up as Zack and the others disappeared in the smoke allowing Gurume to get free. Ego then shouted with veins bulging on his green neck. “STOP THEM, DON’T LET THEM TAKE THE PRESENTS!!!” Everyone started kicking butt; Clif was kicking some pawns in the nuts while humming to the nutcracker. B then started to kick and punch pawns with melody and was singing Jingle bells along with Zack whom was shooting them with a few paintball guns in the face. Bunny was all along as she was scared looking at the big scary penny pawns in the copper colored suits. Gurume then looked and tried to bash all the pawns out of the way. However, they saw the rage of Bunny for once as she took a replacement pipe from a full pile of them and started whacking all of the pawns to the point of unconsciousness. Gurume and everyone else looked at Bunny in amazement as they saw what she can do. She then giggled and said, “Whoops, sorry.” Everyone except for Ego gave a full laughter, after the beating that she gave to the pawns. Ego then blasted Gurume with a laser cannon that seemed to stream out brown liquid and was hot, it was hot cocoa. Gurume then rubbed his stomach as it grew an inch making him full off of cocoa. Ego then got angry and screamed. “WHO WAS THE IDIOT THAT PUT COCOA IN THE LASER’S POWER SUPPLY??!!” The penny pawn that did quickly snuck out the airlock and dove out the airship and launched his parachute. “I’ll do it myself!” Ego then shoved his jade idol of himself into the battery of the laser as it powered up again! “This time, I will take you down with the power of money!” The laser blasted towards Gurume. However, Gurume used his own belly as a shield and reflected the beam at Ego. The beam hit him with extreme heat and made him faint. The airship’s autopilot control had then landed back in Ego’s yard as the family all shouted in celebration of Ego’s defeat.
The back hatch had then opened as the police force had stormed in and surrounded Ego. The police chief town then put handcuffs on Ego and said, “Ego Banks, you are under arrested for Larceny, forgery, illegal contracting and attempt in first degree murder. Your assets have been seized and frozen for the next 10 years and your contracts are null and void.” Ego then shouted as he was carted away to jail. “NOOOOOOO!!!!” For the first time ever he had lost to Gurume and went bankrupt. “Hey Chief! Mind if we take the presents and return them?” The chief of the police nodded and said, “Sure, but get it done, you got about a few hours.” Clif then hooked up the conveyor belts and started attaching parachutes to the presents as the girls got in elf costumes. Gurume, got in a Santa suit as Zack started to pilot the ship since he had the most experience with playing video games. At the top when the presents were ready, Gurume then took a look at his family and asked, “Are you guys ready?” They all shouted, “Yeah as they tossed the presents as they descended down to everyone in Oak City with all of the kids catching them. Since it was Christmas morning, the kids unwrapped their gifts all around town and screamed out in joy as they loved their toys and other gimmicks they got. One child then looked up at the gleaming lights from the airship and she said, “Look daddy, Santa is real!” Her father then picked her up and said, “He sure is sweetheart! Merry Christmas sweetheart!” The girl kissed her father on the cheek and said, “Merry Christmas Daddy!” They both gave a wave to the airship as Gurume gave a loud shout saying, “HO HO HO! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!!”

As soon as the gang got home, they opened up their gifts. Zack got a chemistry set and his room got hooked up into a lab for his appropriate age. Bunny got a life sized version of her doll and got a new collection of things in her room. The two then hugged Melody and said, “Merry Christmas Melody and Papawolf!” The kids got together and gave their present to Melody, Gurume gave his share in it two. “Oh my God! It is the matching diamond necklace and bracelets. You kids and your father are the best!” Gurume gave his present to Clif, it was the keys to Gurume’s dojo and a black belt. “Papawolf does this mean I..” Gurume then nodded at Clif and said, “Yup, you graduated and now you are my assistant master.” Clif had thought this day had never come! He grabbed his Papawolf’s belly in a hug and shouted. “Papawolf thank you so much!” B then got a little disappointed, Gurume and Melody both placed their hands on both of B’s shoulders. “Don’t worry, baby we didn’t forget you!” Melody then lead B outside where B had her jaw dropped and eyes pop out. In the drive way was a bee colored 2014 Chevrolet Camaro. She then ran to her car rubbed the seats and asked with excitement, “Is this….” Melody and Gurume then said, “All yours B!” She then screamed and ran towards the two with tears of joy and screamed, “THANK YOU TWO SO MUCH!!” The gang all then piled in the car and drove towards Murray’s where Melody had taken the dinner and everyone in town was there, even Grif the Billy goat! After they ate a heartfelt lunch and dinner at Murray’s while hugging Santa Gurume’s belly they all began to sing.

“We wish you a Merry Christmas”
“We wish you a Merry Christmas”
“We wish you a Merry Christmas”
“And a Happy New Year!”
“Good tidings to you, where ever you are
Good Tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year”
“We wish you a Merry Christmas”
“We wish you a Merry Christmas”
“We wish you a Merry Christmas…”
The police chief then tapped Ego with his nightstick to get him to say the last part.

Ego: “And a Happy New Year!”



HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!